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Age and the new generation gaps, including between millennials and Gen Xers, are among the subjects she reflects on in her new collection of essays, Dead and Alive.

Zadie Smith's new collection of essays is called Dead and Alive.

If you'd like to catch up on interviews you've missed, like our conversation with writer Zadie Smith on her new collection of essays, Dead and Alive,

Age and the new generation gaps, including between millennials and Gen Xers, are among the subjects she reflects on in her new collection of essays, Dead and Alive.

Zadie Smith's new collection of essays is called Dead and Alive.

Under the Bridge tells the haunting story of a murder that lays bare a small community's darkest secrets.

Based on shocking true events, the new Hulu original series Under the Bridge tells the story of a savage murder in a small town.

the riveting adaptation of the acclaimed true crime book.

Tom, your character turns to the Herman Hesse novel, Siddhartha, which is like a Buddhist-oriented novel.

In one of the books about women who leave their children, remember the librarians list? A narrator says something like, sometimes you have to escape in order not to die. I don't think the tricky part is the escape. Abandonment is easy. Any fool can do it. No wonder dads leave all the time. Siddhartha was neither noble and questing, nor depraved. He was a dude acting on a whim.

That's the book from Herman Hesse of 1922. It's about a man who leaves his family to find himself. We call that enlightenment.

Steven Knight from Peaky Blinders and All the Light We Cannot See, explores their relationship brilliantly.

the Pulitzer Prize winning World War two novel All the Light We Cannot See has been adapted into a miniseries our TV critic David Bianculli will have a review after we take a short break

the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Anthony door has been adapted into a new fourpart miniseries premiering today on Netflix the story takes place in the years before and during the Nazi occupation of France in World war two

All the Light We Cannot See the new fourhour Netflix miniseries is worthwhile and heartening in the midst of the darkness and horror of war the light in the title refers to hope

I think it's one of the reasons people love Harry Potter so much is it's basically a British schoolboy story.

I think it's one of the reasons people love Harry Potter so much is it's basically a British school boy story, you know?

She's written a new book about her life and work in this space called Unmasking AI, My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines.

She's written a new book titled Unmasking AI, My Mission to Protect What is Human and a World of Machines.

Joy Bolemwini's new book is Unmasking AI. My mission to protect what is human in a world of machines.

She's written a new book about her life and work in this space called Unmasking AI, My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines.

Her new book is titled Unmasking AI, My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines.

She's written a new book titled Unmasking AI, My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines.

If you're just joining us, we're talking with ... about her new book, Unmasking AI, My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines.

And the subtitle of the book is protecting what is human in a world of machines.

He tells his story in a new memoir titled On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

His new memoir is On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

He tells his story in a new memoir titled, On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

It is a remarkable journey. And although there is a lot of science, I want to tell readers it is accessible and readable.

He has a new memoir. It's called On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

We reintroduce you... His new memoir is On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

His new memoir is On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

Her new memoir is titled Oath and Honor, a memoir and a warning.

Liz Cheney's new book is called Oath and Honor, a Memoir and a Warning.

She describes it as the story of the moment American democracy began to unravel and the story of the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.

The warning is about the threat to our democracy if Trump is reelected in 2024.

You write that sometimes Kevin McCarthy had Trump secretly dialed in to meetings not informing the entire Republican conference.

My guest is Liz Cheney, who has written a new memoir which she describes as, quote, the story of the moment American democracy began to unravel and the story of the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office, unquote.

Her new memoir is titled Oath and Honor, a memoir and a warning.

Her new memoir is called Oath and Honor, a memoir and a warning.

Her new memoir is called Oath and Honor, a memoir and a warning.

This Cheney's new book is called Oath and Honor, a memoir and a warning.

They brought a mockup of a hardcover book... it was on the bestseller list for just about two years.

Cy Newhouse went to his executives and he said, this guy should write a book. And in fact, I spoke to the editor of Art of the Deal who told me that it was uniquely Cy Newhouse's idea that Trump create Art of the Deal.

They brought a mockup of a hardcover book, kind of a big hefty, I think it was a Russian novel actually, that they put kind of like a fake dust jacket on. A fake Trump dust jacket. It had a big photograph of Trump on it in the Trump Tower atrium.

When the book came out, there was a huge book party with all of New York society under the waterfall in Trump Tower, where many years later he would come down the escalator. It was on the bestseller list for just about two years and earned millions for the company.

Her new novel, The Vaster Wilds, tells a harrowing story of an escape from Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in what later became the U.S.

Lauren Groff has said that Robinson Crusoe is one of the inspirations for her new historical novel, The Vaster Wilds.

The Vaster Wilds is set in the fledgling Jamestown colony around the winter of 1609 to 1610, a period known to historians as the starving time, because over 80% of the colonists died of disease and famine.

In her new novel called The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff, who's been a finalist for the National Book Award three times, tells a harrowing story of an escape from Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

The Vaster Wilds is set in the fledgling Jamestown colony around the winter of 1609 to 1610, a period known to historians as the starving time, because over 80% of the colonists died of disease and famine.

The Vaster Wilds may be more realistic than Robinson Crusoe's fortunate flagging down of a passing ship.

but mostly from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, which many consider to be the first science fiction book.

I really wanted to read Mary Shelley's novel, which I've never read before... I did, however, read your introduction to, like, I think it's a 2021 annotated version of the novel.

I was trying to capture ... Bernie Wrightson who illustrated for me the best illustrated version of the novel.

and from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

I really wanted to read Mary Shelley's novel, which I've never read before speaking to you again, and I wasn't able to find the time to do it.

No, no, no. There are so many things that are in the novel.

When the creature meets Victor in the frozen north, he says, well, this is what happened to me, and he proceeds to tell him his itinerary of degradation and humanization and learning the language with the family of the hermit. All of that is in the novel.

It was 33 years after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini called for Rushdie's death as punishment for writing the novel The Satanic Verses.

To the Ayatollah, it was a righteous way to punish Rushdie for having written the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which to the Ayatollah was blasphemous in its treatment of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

It had been 33 and a half years since the Atilla Ruhala Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses.

To the Ayatollah it was a righteous way to punish Rushdie for having written the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses which to the Ayatollah was blasphemous in its treatment of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

It had been 33 and a half years since the Aytelaruhu-la-Chomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses.

The name of his memoir is titled What a Fool Believes, named after the Doobie Brothers' 1979 Grammywinning song.

Well, Michael, I really enjoyed your memoir and I really enjoyed this conversation.

Michael McDonald's new memoir is What a Fool Believes.

His new memoir is What a Fool Believes which he cowrote with comedian Paul Riser.

there are also people on the left who were saying that we should not teach Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn in classes because of the language that is in those books.

He read them all. And that's where I read the Encyclopedia of Anatomy and Health. And that's where I read all my classics, you know, Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde.

Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Catch and Kill.

His book, podcast, and HBO docu-series about his investigation into sexual abuses by Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein are all called Catch and Kill.

In his 2019 book, Catch and Kill, journalist Ronan Farrow documented a pattern in which Lauer pursued women on staff at NBC over the course of decades.

A few times you highlight details from Ronan Farrow's book Catch and Kill that has your story that you paint it as imprecise.

Morrison did not have a Toni Morrison when she was writing Beloved. But you do.

All the other major contenders, and I'm thinking of books like Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, Beloved, foreground the issue of race.

Writer Claire Massoud is known for contemporary novels rich in psychological insight, like The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs.

Claire Messud is known for contemporary novels rich in psychological insight like The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs.

Criticat Large John Powers reviews the new Paramount Plus Drama series, A Gentlemen in Moscow.

Based on the 2016 novel by A More Tolls, the show begins streaming on Paramount Plus today and then is televised Sundays on Showtime.

This fascination helped make a best seller of A Gentleman in Moscow. A More Tolls' sleekly-tooled novel about an exceedingly appealing Russian aristocrat after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

the new limited series A Gentleman in Moscow based on the best selling novel after the Russian Revolution count Alexander Rostov is imprisoned in a hotel in Moscow...

Berman's new book, Minority Rule, connects the debates of the founding fathers and the resolutions they came up with to contemporary politics and issues like partisan gerrymandering, voting rights restrictions, and antiimmigration policies.

author of the new book Minority Rule.

He's the voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and has written about voting rights for years. His new book is called Minority Rule.

His new book is called Minority Rule. We'll be right back after a short break.

He's the author of Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, and the forthcoming book Minority Rule, The RightWing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It, which will be published in April.

Her other books include Twilight of Democracy, Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine, and Gulag, A History.

In your last book, The Twilight of Democracy, you were focused on those who make a tyrant possible.

you also ... in your previous book Twilight of Democracy ...